Kodem

Profile (continued)

At RSAC 2025, Kodem launched 'Kai,' billed as the first AI-native application security engineer; by July 2025 the company repositioned Kai as a multi-agent 'agentic task force' (Kai Red for proving exploitability, Kai Blue for remediation/verification, Kai Defend for real-time production defense), coordinated over a shared 'attack map' built from code, container, and runtime telemetry. The company's current site frames its offering as a 'Self-Healing Application' workflow (find → fix → verify, continuously) and highlights 'Runtime AI Security,' i.e., discovering and attributing the actions of AI agents/MCP tools running inside customer applications — a pivot reflecting the broader 2025–2026 market shift toward AI-agent security and reachability-based prioritization (echoed in Gartner's 2025 Hype Cycle for Application Security and FedRAMP's draft RFC-0012 guidance, both cited in Kodem's own materials).

As of the company's own 'About' page (accessed August 2026), Kodem reports 2021 as its founding year, 51 employees, and '$40M+ raised to date.' This self-reported total exceeds the $25M publicly confirmed via press coverage of the 2023 Seed/Series A rounds, and the same page's 'Backed by' section now also displays a Highland Capital Partners logo (linking to hcp.com) alongside Greylock and TPY Capital — whereas Kodem's own May 2024 press release described the company as 'Backed by TPY Capital and Greylock Partners' only, with no mention of Highland. This strongly suggests an additional (likely Series B or extension) financing involving Highland Capital Partners occurred sometime between mid-2024 and mid-2026, but no press release, TechCrunch/Crunchbase entry, or other independent news source confirming the amount, date, or full investor syndicate of this round could be located during this research; Crunchbase's public profile for Kodem still lists only two rounds (Seed and Series A) with Greylock and TPY Capital as the disclosed investors. This funding gap and the unconfirmed round should be treated as a flagged data-quality issue rather than a verified fact.

Kodem's homepage 'trusted by' logo carousel names Lightcast, Apollo, Dayforce, Google, CAVA, MLB (Major League Baseball), Stewart, Microsoft, Minute Media, Riskified, Rapyd, and Baptist Health as customers/users of the platform — self-reported by the company but a reasonably strong signal given the specificity of named brands (particularly Rapyd, which is independently corroborated via a named CISO quote in two separate pieces of content). Kodem positions itself against traditional SAST/SCA vendors, with dedicated 'alternatives/comparison' pages versus Snyk, GitHub Advanced Security, Checkmarx, Veracode, and Semgrep; Crunchbase separately lists Aikido Security, Sysdig, and Wiz as competitors. The current executive/leadership roster (per the company's team page, August 2026) includes Aviv Mussinger (CEO & Co-Founder), Pavel Furman (CTO & Co-Founder), Idan Bartura (Head of R&D & Co-Founder), Gal Segev (Chief of Staff), Oron Chertkow (Head of Operations), Mahesh Babu (Field CISO — previously Head of Marketing per the 2024 press release, indicating a role change), Jill Klein (Head of Sales — succeeding Dennis Vasavis, who is no longer listed on the team page), and Christine Carrig (Head of Demand Generation). No independent source (e.g., SEC filings, detailed board disclosures) was found to fully enumerate Kodem's board of directors beyond the Greylock investor listing; this should not be assumed to be the complete board.

Go-to-market

Enterprise application security, DevSecOps, and platform engineering teams, with named use in fintech, insurance, healthcare, retail, sports/media, and technology sectors.

Ownership

private